Using evidence on violence and injury prevention for policy development and decision making in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Uso de información sobre prevención de la violencia y las lesiones para la formulación de políticas y la toma de decisiones en Ciudad Juárez, México

• Main Authors: Luis Alberto Gutiérrez, Sergio Pacheco, Alethia Yurithzi Juárez, Luis Alexandro Palacios, Maria Teresa Cerqueira
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2012
• Subjects: Vigilancia epidemiológica; violencia; accidentes de tránsito; sistemas de información geográfica; salud fronteriza; México; Estados Unidos; Epidemiologic surveillance; violence; accidents; traffic; geographic information systems; border health; Mexico; United States; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Observatorio
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/3cbdbd3b2d7244bb88ed63ff67d19398

This report describes the implementation process and functional structure of the Observatory of Security and Citizen Conviviality of the Juarez Municipality (Observatorio de Seguridad y Convivencia Ciudadanas del Municipio de Juárez) in Chihuahua, Mexico, and discusses the most relevant lessons lear...